44 CIGRE Session - CIGRE 2012, Paris (France). 26-31 agosto 2012
Summary:
This paper highlights findings of the European Commission funded project called MERGE (Mobile Energy Resources in Grids of Electricity). MERGE is a collaborative research project that includes utilities, regulators, commercial organisations and universities with interests in the power generation, automotive, electronic commerce and hybrid and electric vehicle sectors across the entire European Union (EU). This major two-year research initiative began in January 2010. The MERGE project mission is to evaluate the impacts that electric vehicles (EV) will have on the European Union (EU) electric power systems with regards to planning, operation and market functioning. The focus is placed on EV and SmartGrid/MicroGrid simultaneous deployment, together with renewable energy increase, leading to CO2 emission reduction through the identification of enabling technologies and advanced control approaches. In this paper indicative results from the impact of the additional EV load will have in the daily and yearly system load diagrams and in the operation of the transmission and distribution networks of five European countries (Greece, UK, Spain, Portugal, and Germany) in 2020 are presented. General conclusions are drawn.
Keywords: Electric Vehicles, Transmission and Distribution Networks, Power System steady state analysis
Publication date: August 2012.
Citation:
Hatziargyriou, N., Peças, J., Bower, E.T., Strunz, K., Rivier, M., Lioliou, V., Papathanassiou, S., Karfopoulos, E., González Bordagaray, A., Cabral, P., Llanos Lecum, C., Walsh, A., Kanellopoulos, K., Joyce, C., Hartmann, N., Impact of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on grid infrastructure - results from the MERGE project, 44 CIGRE Session - CIGRE 2012, Paris (France). 26-31 August 2012.
IIT-12-176A
